One Class, One Race

So, stumbled across a thought sharing topic over on WoW Ladies, and somehow spun it into reality. The idea is rolling ten toons on a single server. You must represent every race and every class with those ten.

I started out with the tough class, which was Druid. Since there’s only two races I had to pick, and I went with Night Elf because I just can’t bring myself to make a Tauren Druid. I wanted a Gnome Mage, Undead Warlock, and Troll Priest. I like humans less and less so I made mine a Warrior (a combo I loathe). Then it came to Shaman and Paladin. Their faction could affect my choices, so in the end I decided I did not want a Blood Elf Pally or Draenai Shaman.

So, for Shaman, that left me with Orc or Tauren. I decided on Orc, though Tauren was tempting. Just didn’t see much else I wanted for an Orc. That left me with Tauren, Draenai, and Dwarf. Decided on Dwarf Pally to try and inspire me to play the damn class, and Tauren Death Knight. That meant Draenai for the Hunter.

So, after some talk, we started rolling on Nagrand (EU) to make the two guilds. Quintets of the Horde is up, and Quintets of the Alliance should be in a day or two.

We’re keeping it insanely casual, and more than anything just want to see what gets leveled and what doesn’t, and just a new way to have fun with the game. If you’re interested, seek out Revlar on the Horde side.

Wielding The Light With Tumunzahar

Ah, my fun-lovin’ Dwarf Priest. Remember the song from Toy Story? Randy Newman singing away? That’s what I hear when I boot around with my original toon.

Tum was originally rolled on Maelstrom, an RP-PvP server. This was my introduction to the game. A couple of friends were talking about their guild and trying to run Deadmines (this was ALL jibberish to me at the time), but they only had 4 guys. After some talk, I agreed to give it a try (which is the first mistake we all make). They told me I could roll anything, so long as it was Gnome or Dwarf. From D&D days, the Dwarf was the better choice for me.

I looked at classes and was immediately frustrated to see the Dwarf race did not have Mage as an option…but could be a Rogue. To this day I say WTF???? Second option, for me, was healing. I had no problem with the fun of playing a healer. In fact, I kinda relished it.

I started him up and as the overwhelming sensation of the game slowly subsided, I grooved into Holy. I read Shadow was better for leveling, and then doing a respec later. This was not for me. When I roll a character, I put my creative juices into it and play it a certain way (you’ll see this more as I discuss others). Tum has been, and always will be, Holy. Right to 80.

The reason I changed servers with him, was actually a couple of reasons -nice explanation, I know. Clear as mud. I started Siori around this time last year (more on her later) and she quickly got more play time than my little buddy did. Tum got booted from the guild, even though I made a point of being on at least once a week. I was invited back twice. No one ever game me an explanation as to why it happened, and I still don’t know. After I got kicked the third time, I stripped him down and sold everything he had. 54g. Not much, but it made a world of difference to the level 4 Gnome I walked up to and handed it to.

In modern times, unfortunately, he’s at the same level as Liouxpold and Elcombe, so I try to only bust him out when I can get into an instance and Heal. Of course, now that Siori snagged an Heirloom that all my toons can use, I might grind him a bit more.

The only tough thing about Tum was that I rolled him as a Miner/Jewelcrafter. If you haven’t taken Jewelcrafting with a toon I’ll tell you right now it’s a pain in the ass in the middle stages. Most of what you make, you take a loss on. However, Blizzard has done a tremendous job of making Jewelcrafting a profitable profession come end game. Now I just need to get his mining up…

Switching Gears Before Turning Ignition

So, I had planned to make this blog a place to RP the adventures of my various World Of Warcraft toons.  It was meant to be entertaining and a means by which I could release some of my writing skills.  Somewhere along the way, I never really followed up on it.  Biggest reason for that, that I can attribute it to anyway, is that I wanted to write as things happened to my characters.  Unfortunately, a couple of them have had too much going on in too short of time for me to put together a consistent and solid narration as a whole.

So, after reviewing things, I’ve decided to turn this little place of mine into something I’ve come to find a great deal of on the web: a person’s take on all things WoW. 

I’ll give the lowdown on my toons and things of interest, and sound off on anything game-related that might be topical. 

In the meantime, I’ll be requiring some patience as I get things organized and started.  Next post will be an outline of my toons.  I can’t access the armory (or much WoW-related) at work, and I’d rather not re-edit later.